BREAKING: Homeland Sec. Says Trump Ban Will Likely Be Back

Retired Gen. John Kelly, head of the Department of Homeland Security, was confident President Donald Trump’s temporary freeze on immigration from seven countries with terrorism problems will survive the current court challenge.

In testimony before the House Committee on Homeland Security on Tuesday, Kelly said that once the judges of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals realize the issue was not “academic” but one of national security, they would realize the importance of the plan, according to The Washington Post.

“Of course, in their courtrooms, they’re protected by people like me,” Kelly said. “I have nothing but respect for our judges, but they live in a different world than I do.”

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Needless to say, a decision in Trump’s favor, coming from the ultra-liberal circuit court, would horrify Democrat leaders like San Francisco’s Nancy Pelosi, who’s been a key player in the charade of protests against the executive order.

Even while predicting vindication for the executive order, Kelly did say he would have implemented it differently.

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“In retrospect, I should have — this is all on me, by the way — I should have delayed it just a bit, so that I could talk to members of Congress, particularly the leadership of committees like this, to prepare them for what was coming, although I think most people would agree that this has been a topic of President Trump certainly during his campaign and during the transition process,” Kelly said in his testimony.

“Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or non-immigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate,” it reads.

As Trump pointed out, “a bad high school student would understand this.” We can only hope that there are some jurists out there who are better than that standard so that we can see the Democrats as unhappy as they should be about this.